AHA Asks DOJ To Set Up Medicare Advantage Fraud Task Force

The American Hospital Association urged the Department of Justice to set up a fraud task force to go after Medicare Advantage plans that inappropriately and routinely deny care to enrollees, and urged DOJ to slap fines on plans engaged in fraud. “It is time for the Department of Justice to exercise its False Claims Act authority to both punish those MAOs that have denied Medicare beneficiaries and their providers their rightful coverage and to deter future misdeeds. This problem has...